Review of Hostel

Hostel (2005)
8/10
Discourages people to go on sex tours.
5 November 2006
I think this movie presents a good argument against going on a hedonistic sex tour on a few different fronts: 1) If you go on a hedonistic sex tour, and pay money to bang babes, then equally some sadist may pay money to torture and kill you. The fact is, when an institution is sick or evil, you could also be a victim. The very concept of the sex tour is that a woman is a commodity that can be purchased - but there is no limit on what can be commidified as long as there is a market for it.

2) Second of all, suppose you start getting becoming a more depraved and sick human afterwards. A character that was during the torturing to an Asian woman apparently went on lots of sex tours, and wanted bigger highs and thrills and eventually ended up doing that. It's like some sort of progression. Starts with a hedonistic sex tour with normal women, then more depravity, it goes to sex with children, more depravity, it comes to snuff, more depravity, torture and killing, etc....

As a young virgin guy, I identified with the characters wanting to get laid in Europe, and sure, that's a guy thing. I really identified with them and was totally sympathetic. Although they wanted to get laid, they never hurt or tortured anyone and could never have deserved that.

The movie has a stead progression from an American pie movie, to a horror movie to a revenge movie and had a nice tone to it - but the problem with the movie is that it is just too evil - I felt like paying to watch a movie like that seems sick. It's a sick movie, but it has raised some points.

If anyone ever thinks of going to Thialand, Costa Rica, or any sex-tour places to explore hedonistic pleasure - then in the back of my mind there could be some evil lurking.

Another aspect is that normal types of people can just be diabolical evil monsters. You don't know what people would do if they had no limitations. Super rich people can buy themselves out of anything, and the movie potentially taints rich people as potentially being sadistic monsters that pay to break the law in third world countries where anything can be bought.
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